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Marijuana in the Holy Oil?

alphacat

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from: http://www.book-of-thoth.com/article1718.html

Marijuana in the Holy Oil?
by Terry Winger

Was there marijuana in the anointing oil as described in exodus 30:23?

The original Hebrew for calamus, is Kaneh-bosem or Qaneh (Kaw-naw) Bosem. Some translations have this as “fragrant cane” or “aromatic cane.” Some researchers have argued that this is actually Sweet Cane or Sugar Cane, although the term sweet does not occur in the original manuscripts.

Kaneh-Bos sounds remarkably close to the modern day word Cannabis. Could it be that cannabis was the plant given by God to be used in the Holy Anointing Oil?

Cannabis has certainly been cultivated since the beginning of recorded history. Its uses for rope, sails and rigging into ancient times are well documented.

Imagine the amount of cannabis rope it would have taken to construct the Temple of Solomon. What other way was there to construct ropes at that time, which could lift the weights of not only the Temple of Solomon, but in fact, the Pyramids themselves.

Cannabis was thought to be an Indo-European word specifically of Scythian Origin. The Scythians were largely responsible for the spread of cannabis into Europe. The Scythe, was an invention of the Scythians, used for the harvest of cannabis. This has come to us in the legends of the “Grim Reaper”

Herodotus, an early Greek ethnographer, in the 5th Century BC wrote of the Scythians and their use of cannabis.

The Scythians as they were known by the Greeks, were known, by the Semites as the Ashkenaz. Among the earliest references to Ashkenaz people is found in Genesis 10:3 where Ashkenaz was listed as the son of Gomer, the great Grandson of Noah. The Sythians lived around and traded with the Semites at least as early as 600 BC.

Zoroaster the prophet of the Ancient Magi, whose kings followed the Star of Bethlehem based on the ancient prophesies, used a drink called Haoma which has been documented to contain cannabis.

As early as 1925 experts have argued that, both the Assyrians and the Babylonians, used Cannabis in their temple incense, Circa 500 BC.

In 1993, the Albany New York Times Union reported, that the first physical evidence that Marijuana was used as a medicine in the ancient Mideast, was found. The Israeli scientists found residue of marijuana along with the skeleton of a girl who had died 1600 years before.

In this press release, researchers from the Hebrew University, stated that references to marijuana as a medicine are seen as far back as 1,600 BC in Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, and Roman Writings.

If you actually buy the Calamus translation for the Holy Oil, then you assume that God specified in Exodus 30:23 a drug commonly known as Ecstasy. Calamus contains an ingredient called aserone. This is a hallucinogen which is metabolized in the liver as trimethoxyamphetamine or ecstasy. The Middle Eastern version of this plant is far more toxic than it`s North American Cousin. This is deadly to flies and other insects.The Exodus 30:23 reference refers to sweet Calamus. If you look at this in the Strong’s concordance where they spell this as qaneh rather than kaneh, they pronounce this as Kaw-Naw, a reed, calamus, and cane are listed as possible translations. The term sweet used in Exodus 30:23 in Hebrew is Bosem. According to the Webster's New World Hebrew Dictionary, Bosem is perfume; scent. The Concordance: the Hebrew is Bosem #1314, fragrance, by impl. spicery; also the balsam plant:----smell, spice, sweet (odour). In some Bibles sweet calamus is translated as aromatic or fragrant Cane. It is where the bosem is fused to the word kaneh or qaneh that the cannabis translation becomes apparent. So then to pronounce this we have kaw-naw-bosem, and is spelled in English qaneh-bosem or kaneh-bosem.

In 1936, Sara Benetowa, later Known as Sula Benet, an etymologist from the Institute of Anthropological Sciences, in Warsaw wrote a treatise, "Tracing One Word Through Different Languages." This was a study on the word Cannabis, based on a study of the oldest Hebrew texts. Although the word cannabis was thought to be of Scythian origin, Benet's research showed it had an earlier root in the Semitic Languages such as Hebrew. Benet demonstrated that the ancient Hebrew word for Cannabis is Kaneh -Bosem. She also did another study called Early Diffusion and Folk Uses of Hemp. There is a reprint of this in Cannabis and Culture ISBN:90-279-7669-4. On page 44, she states, "The sacred character of hemp in biblical times is evident from Exodus 30:23, where Moses was instructed by God to anoint the meeting tent and all of its furnishings with specially prepared oil, containing hemp." On page 41 Sula Benet writes: In the course of time, the two words kaneh and bosem were fused into one , kanabos or kannabus know to us from the Mishna. According to the Webster's New World Hebrew Dictionary, page 607 the Hebrew for hemp is kanabos.

Sara Benetowa discovered that the Kaneh-Bosm or Cannabis is mentioned 5 times in the Old Testament. The first occurrence appears in the Holy Anointing Oil as Calamus, (Exodus 30:23). Sara argued that the translation of Calamus was a mistranslation which occurred in the oldest Bible the “Septuagint” and the mistranslation was copied in later versions.
 

greenhead

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I don't know too much about religious things, but that may very well be true.

In the 'Holy Land' today, the Israeli army gives cannabis to some of their soldiers.

Israel to Treat Soldiers With Marijuana

August 9, 2004

While the United States government continues to stonewall research on marijuana as medical treatment, Israel is sanctioning a study of the drug using military volunteers.

The medical arm of the Israeli army has joined Hebrew University in studying the effects of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, to treat Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Hundreds of Israelis have been treated for combat stress after performing their mandatory national service in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.


http://ocnorml.org/articles/israel_on_pot.htm

:joint: :wave:
 

AlaskaGrows

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i was under the impression that it was officially re-translated to cannabis. and that in fact they WHERE wrong as translating it into the sweet calamus leaf or whatever.

the recipe calls for i believe 6-8 pounds of this 'kaneh-bosom'

they woulda been some stoned mofo's, cuz the whole point of this recipe is to annoint themselves with it.

heres something interesting. within the last year, a couple in alaska was arrested after the police raided there house, finding 50 or so plants.

there was not one smoking utensil in the house no pipes bongs rolling papers etc. no scales baggies or anything. they claimed they did it because of religious purposes. they were trying to make an annointing oil..... sadly they were convicted.

AG
 

Verite

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And right after jesus used it he said, " Shouldnt we be smoking this? "
 

D0nC0smic

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sadly i don't see that THC ministry web page as being around for too much longer, since their founder is most likely to go to jail for a very very long time
 
G

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How do you figure? There are many THC Ministries around.....the .net site is hosted by our Amsterdam ministry and nobody is going to jail there.
 

Pops

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The term bosem is plural. the singular is kanah-bos, which the Scythians borrowed for the word cannabis, from which we get canvas. Many religious folks would like the meaning to be calamus, so they don't have to deal with the issue. However, calamus is water soluble, not oil soluble as cannabis. It wouldn't have done the Levites any good to put 9 pounds of calamus in 6 qts. of oil.
 
G

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yea I dont know if it isn't the tree of life I'd like to find other candidates.
 

Blue_adept

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very interesting read, i knew about the reference in Song of Songs, but not the others.
Makes one think about how the religious right pushes the criminalization of psychoactives, when the very root of their religion(s) embraced them. A bit hypocritical i think.

BlueAdept
 

Ferre

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D0nC0smic said:
sadly i don't see that THC ministry web page as being around for too much longer, since their founder is most likely to go to jail for a very very long time


Do you have information which other people don't have? To be honest I doubt what you are saying, specially when knowing that hawai'i, where the THC Ministry is based, has a special provision in its laws which equals a religious card holder with a medicinal card holder.

See:
http://www.thc-ministry.org/hawaiipolicerulesreligioususe.html

Roger Christie, the founder, has been quite high-profile since the past seven years, he even run for Mayor on the big island and has been advertising the THC Ministry in the local newspapers for years.

On the "holy" oil, me personally think that whoever-wrote-the-bible was inspired by Chinese medicine which was already around for hundreds of years before the Abrahamic teachings were written and which includes many healing oils containing Cannabis. As the bible is a collection of stories "borrowed" from pre-Abrahamic cultures/religions, I don't have any doubt that this recipe is "borrowed" as well.

It does have "magical" (read=amazing) healing powers, as I have witnessed and can confirm first hand.
 

master shake

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I've heard and read about this before. Very neat

I didn't see this mentioned in this article here, just skimmed through, if you believe in Jesus Christ then his name alone reveals he himself used cannabis. Christ means "the anointed one" anointing means to have an oil mix, called a "Chrism", poured over your body in a ceremonial fashion. This event is documented in the bible, jesus getting anointed. Ancient recipes for this Chrism called for up to 9lbs of that Kaneh-bossom and other substances. So yeah Jesus was probably stoned
 

G Brazil

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There is no doubt about this fact. Jesus used the herb in one way or another.... all the prophets did. Political leaders of today are against the herb because they are against a plant that gives spiritual, physical ,mental health and hapiness..... they support alcohol wich makes your thoughts confused , they dont want you to stop and think....... plus the fact that they rather sell you all kinds of poison in the drug stores, they make more money that way.... so when the government downpress the herb, is the same kind of downpression Jesus faced.. If jesus was alive today.... people would call him a terrorist, a drug user.. and would face death just like he did 2000 years ago. The herb is the healing of the nations... It Gods most special plant, because it contains all aromas and perfumes of nature condensed in one type of plant.... mint, berry, citrus, skunky, piney, eathy, chocolate, vanilla, sour, tropical fruit, mango, you name it and cannabis will have a plant that represents the flavor and aroma you want..... growers of the world unite....... lets chant down Babylon
Death to black and white downpressors!
 

Verite

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Pops said:
The term bosem is plural. ..

Mmmmm you can say that again.

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